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Why Would North Korea Conduct Another Nuclear Test?  

Union of Concerned Scientists

Last year alone, it tested 70 missiles, including short-, medium- and long-range missiles. The year 2022 saw more missile tests from North Korea than at any time in its history. This includes the development of a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which North Korea successfully test-fired in November 2022.

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Fourth District Belatedly Publishes CEQA Opinion Upholding City of Newport Beach’s Approval of Multifamily-Housing Development Pursuant To Addendum To 2006 EIR For Larger Mixed-Use Development

CEQA Developments

Given that the City is fairly built out, there is a dearth of available sites on which to construct multifamily housing, and the City had identified the Center as a possible site for multifamily residential development circa 2006. The project was approved in early 2021 over the objections of one property owner at the Center.

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Judicial Deference to Agencies: A Timeline

Legal Planet

Chief Justice Roberts concurs with the recalibrated test, making a majority for that part of Kagan’s opinion. holds that Chevron deference applies only to agency actions having the force of law. All other agency interpretations of statutes are subject to Skidmore deference. Gonzales v. In National Cable & Telecommunications v.

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Oppenheimer Remains Largely Faithful to History, But Some Critical Pieces are Missing

Union of Concerned Scientists

Robert Oppenheimer, who directed the team of scientists at Los Alamos that designed and tested the first nuclear weapon, became known as the ‘father of the atomic bomb.’ And he is willing to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of civilian lives to test this theory. Physicist J. Children played in the radioactive ash like it was snow.

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Supreme Court Curtails Federal Wetlands Protections; Developers Still Must Consider State and Local Wetlands Laws

Law and Environment

Environmental Protection Agency , which significantly narrowed the Clean Water Act’s (“CWA”) test for determining whether wetlands are protected “waters of the United States” and the federal permitting requirements for development projects in covered wetlands areas. United States , 547 U.S.

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U.S. Supreme Court Narrows the Scope of the Clean Water Act by Limiting EPA’s Jurisdiction over Wetlands

MGKF Law

715, 754 (2006). While the 9-0 decision was unanimous in judgment by holding that the Sacketts’ wetland was not subject to federal jurisdiction, the court was sharply divided as to the test to determine when an adjacent wetland qualifies as a Water of the United States (or “WOTUS”). United States, 547 U.S. See 88 Fed.

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DEP Invites Comments On New Post-Construction Stormwater Management Manual

PA Environment Daily

DEP said the significant changes from the previous 2006 Manual include-- -- New interpretive guidance on the post-construction Stormwater Management regulations (25 Pa. Code formal notice ) The deadline for comments is April 28. Code § 102.8

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